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Alex can eat 110 cakes in 10 minutes and Blake can eat 56 cakes in 8 minutes.
How long will it take Alex and Blake to eat 954 cakes?
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Hint: Work out how many each can eat in one minute.
Answer: 53 minutes.
In one minute Alex eats 11 cakes (= 110 ÷ 10).
In one minute Blake eats 7 cakes (= 56 ÷ 8).
So in total they eat 18 cakes every minute.
So it will take 954 ÷ 18 = 53 minutes.
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